The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-26

a revision of the tariff. and this NAV
suggest party aspect, and the PROPOSE
ton from those who are reaping large
benefits by having the industries In
which they are engaged specially and
eXtraYagantly protected, and the idea of
commercial union might mutilate
against their prosperity, but fortunate
iy it involves the abandonment of nei-
Their free nor protective theories. / in
sist, and it is too clear to need argIl-
ment, then as little reason as an
abstract proposition in restricting or
any wise hampering trade between the
citizens of the United States and the
citizens Of Canada as would be impos-
ing the same conditions and burdens
on trade between inhabitants of Ohio
and those of Illinois and Iowa, and for
like and obvious reasons / have already
suggested tariff if levied for protection
relates solely to unequal condition,
which it seeks to eQualiZe, but If it be
true prosperity comes simply through
protective tariff without reference to
conditions and we become rich and
prosperous by levying duties upon all
we buy if produced elsewhere, and are
by the same, taken and fenced out of
every market to which we would sell,
and by like system of duties
it is impossible to see why
each state in the Union may not speed
lily become rich and prosperous by
simply erecting tariff fences between
itself and the other states of the
Union, unless it can be shown that
there is something in the situation and
condition of Canada which makes it |
exceptional and takes it out of the COM
pariSOn. have constituted the system |
we have pursued against our neighborS |
and they against us as defenceless as |
would be Pennsylvania to seek
prosperity of all her people by tariff |
against Illinois, Illinois being more |
largely agricultural than Pennsylvania;
or put the case more strongly, as defence
less as it would be for Illinois to estaE-
liSh a tariff for the benefit of all her
citizens as against Connecticut and
Massachusetts, the latter being manu-
featuring states, while the former is
great agricultural state. Every care
full student will observe the law of
operates constantly,
that the trade of COM
that manufacturers, and other things
being equal will ultimately locate at the
nearest base of supplies, since 1t in
wolves the abSurdity to ship material a
thousand miles to be manufactured, and
then reship the finished product over
the same line to find a market. Now
what is the objection to the present
oyoOC1n dS IdI do IIIc VI OIO
United States are concerned? l
hear of none except as they
relate purely and solely to some
ocal interest. 1t is proper to call {
to the fact that one leading
statesmen of to-day, one who has filled
possibly the largest place in public '
view of almost any man i'll our day,
allude to J. G. Blaine, has advocated !
most ably commercial union between {
he United States and the South t
American states. His propo-
'ition met with general favor, /
loF has it been treated as a party S
question. If great advantages are |
o be derived from such a union, how
much greater and more important are
he advantages to be gained from an
trade relations with those
on our border, to whom we f
ire allied by ties stronger than those /
elating merely to commerce, and to 6
whom our tr.de, although they number :
,ut 5,OOO,0 900, is more than trade with
100000 lying south of us and with |
whom commercial union is proposed. q